This fits right in to what I’ve been blogging about for two years. the 2007 record minimum ice extent was wind driven not melt driven. A significant portion of the…
Month: February 2010
Lindzen on climate science advocacy and modeling – "at this point, the models seem to be failing"
This is a letter professor Richard Lindzen of MIT sent to the Boston Globe and was published today. It is well worth the read. KERRY EMANUEL’S Feb. 15 op-ed “Climate…
North American snow models miss the mark – observed trend opposite of the predictions
While some other bloggers and journalists insist that recent winter snows are proof of global warming effects, they miss the fact that models have been predicting less snow in the…
Caveats Regarding Dr. Phil Jones’ Phenological Arguments for Global Warming
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany The latest Science magazine has an extended interview with Dr. Phil Jones. In this post, I’ll keep away from issues related to Climategate, whether…
Former KNMI director and skeptic Henk Tennekes gets vindication from Netherlands De Telegraaf
Here’s a bit of interesting news from a Dutch newspaper. WUWT readers may recall this story: Scientist quits: ‘I don’t want to remain a member of an organization that …screws…
Why Is Winter Snow Extent Interesting?
Guest post by Steven Goddard Several people keep asking why am I focused on winter snow extent. This seems fairly obvious, but I will review here: Snow falls in the…
U.N. Climate Chief Resigns
From the New York Times By JOHN M. BRODER WASHINGTON — Yvo de Boer, the stolid Dutch bureaucrat who led the international climate change negotiations over four tumultuous years, is…
John Coleman's next TV special airs tonight
Press release: NEW KUSI-TV SPECIAL REPORT DOCUMENTS THE GLOBAL WARMING MELTDOWN In a follow-up to the hit KUSI show “Global Warming: The Other Side”, iconic weatherman John Coleman documents the…
Blame it on Asia, yeah that's the ticket
From Nature Asian pollution delays inevitable warming Dirty power plants exert temporary protective effect. Jeff Tollefson The grey, sulphur-laden skies overlying parts of Asia have a bright side — they…
After two years of stonewalling, NASA GISS FOIA files are now online
You can thank Chris Horner of CEI for making this happen. In August 2007, I submitted two Freedom of Information Act requests to NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space…
Gore on the Arctic (again)
ANOTHER BOLD PREDICTION OF AN ICE-FREE ARCTIC Guest post by Mark Johnson Al Gore trumpets the latest conclusions of Climate Change Advocate David Barber. “Sea ice in Canada’s fragile Arctic…
Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent Second Highest on Record
Guest post by Steven Goddard According to Rutgers University Global Snow Lab, last week’s Northern Hemisphere winter snow extent was the second highest on record, at 52,166,840 km2. This was only…
IPCC gate Du Jour – Antarctic Sea Ice Increase Underestimated by 50%
From World Climate Report: Another IPCC Error: Antarctic Sea Ice Increase Underestimated by 50% Figure 1. Trend in Antarctic ice extent, November 1978 through December 2006 (source: Comiso and Nishio,…
Want to see Solar Cycle 24 develop in realtime? There's an app for that…
Thanks to John A for this noteworthy news item. Ok, this is for iPhone fanboys (and girls) in the main but NASA has just announced a new app for the…
Greenland glaciers – melt due to sea current change, not air temperature
From a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution News Release : Team finds subtropical waters flushing through Greenland fjord Waters from warmer latitudes — or subtropical waters — are reaching Greenland’s glaciers,…
One more thing to worry about – fog shortage
UPDATE: Roger Pielke Jr. alerts us to this: Last summer the San Francisco Chronicle carried a story about research on fog and climate with a different conclusion: The Bay Area…
Jones may submit a correction to his 1990 paper – Keenan responds
Excerpt from the Nature article here Central to the Russell investigation is the issue of whether he or his CRU colleagues ever published data that they knew were potentially flawed,…
Global Warming in Texas
Guest post by Steven Goddard http://www.dontmesswithtexas.org/ Dallas, Texas broke their all time record snowfall record this week. How does this compare with earlier Februaries in Texas? February can be a…
IPCC Gate Du Jour – now IPCC hurricane data questioned
Now IPCC hurricane data is questioned Open science: Got Excel? Debunk this By Andrew Orlowski The Register Above: Hurricane ACE data from Ryan Maue. Note where 2009 is in the scheme…
Paleo tagging past climate sensitivity
I find this paper (PDF) interesting, but it still does not address the temperature/CO2 800 year time lag seen in ice core records. h/t to Leif Svalgaard – Anthony Fossil…
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